Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...efforts of the presidents at Peking have always been divided between safeguarding the provinces against bandits and keeping themselves in power. Now they are forced to clear up the provinces or suffer a foreign army to undertake the task. That same threat, directed at a feebly inactive Mexican government, brought results; and, strangely enough, eventually brought the government itself greater power and prestige in its own country. The same thing may occur in China; the administration, in satisfying the demand to destroy brigandage, may find itself more firmly seated at Peking...
Fifty years ago Mother Advocate found before her the "pleasant though unexpected task--one, however, none the less pleasant from its unexpectedness--of welcoming to the green fields and pastures new of college literature another aspirant for favor," and it was a very courteous greeting that she extended to the young "Magenta." If the child is father to the man the two are often strangely dissimilar. . . . But if the present paper and its editors inherit few features or characteristics from 1873 they do inherit--at least on such formal occasions as birthdays--the excellent good will of Mother Advocate...
...evils of the world today, according to many self-appointed diagnosticians, is skepticism. The Carnegie Corporation has set a lofty example in faith by giving over a million dollars to the American Law Institute for restating and simplifying the common law of the land. A more appalling task could scarcely be imagined. Not only are there decisions out of a past, hundred odd years to be culled but also in the future are the annual grindings of forty-eight state legislatures and one national legislature, all interpreted by a country-full of courts...
...last of these is a sort of enthusiastic human phonograph whose only task is to howl vigorously all day long, "Shahbash, shahbash" ("well done, well done"). His yells of encouragement, however, are by no means haphazard. Without his mercenary and uncritical praise the Indian slackens at once. With him acting as deputy the Indian employer shows an interest in his men, every stroke of the pick receives due appreciation...
...recent years, Charles W. Bryan, a brother, was editor, but his election to the Governorship of Nebraska caused him to forsake his task with the April issue...